SOM Strategic Plan Update: Implementation Phase begins

Please read this note from Dr. Marschall Runge regarding details of the implementation of the SOM Strategic Plan, including a list of specific initiatives and leaders for those areas. If you are interested in participating, please review the list and contact your department chair.

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Dear Faculty:

We are beginning the implementation phase of the
SOM’s Strategic Plan. As you know, there are four major mission
areas: research, education, clinical care and faculty. A member of
the Oversight Committee (Daugird, Enarson, Goldstein, Magnuson,
Newton) will lead each of the four major areas, and we have assigned
“stewards” to each of the individual strategic priorities within
each of the four missions. I’ve asked Cam Enarson, Bruce Wicks and
Leeanne Walker to serve on the Operations Committee. They will
handle day-to-day matters concerning the Strategic Plan process,
deadlines, develop overall protocols concerning the implementation
phase and similar matters.

Each of the defined strategic priorities below
will require a team of people. I am asking that any of you who are
interested in serving on a Strategic Priority Team,
please let your chair know. We are seeking a broad diversity
of faculty representation on these committees to include those areas
of focus within the School of Medicine diversity definition as well
departmental representation and rank.

I appreciate your input in this important
process. The names filled in below are the Oversight Committee
Member assigned to each of the four main missions and the Strategic
Priority Stewards who we have already identified and have accepted
the charge. Again, if you are interested in serving on any of these
teams, please let your chair know.

Sincerely,

Marschall S. Runge

RESEARCH

Terry
Magnuson

SP1.
Set translational/multidisciplinary team science as a
vision for UNC research; provide the tools needed to
foster successful teams

John
Buse

Initiative
1: Establish team/translational science as an
institutional priority; set goals for increasing team
and translational science

Initiative
2: Facilitate the establishment of teams by providing
top-down guidance as well as tools to facilitate
bottom-up investigator-driven team formation

SP2.
Stimulate team-based, translational research with targeted
investments in key translational research areas

Tim
Carey

Initiative
1: Leverage the success of the NC TraCS and the SOM’s
multidisciplinary research centers as primary homes for
translational research at UNC

Initiative
2: Use Center for HC Innovation as a platform for
translational research

SP2.Optimize
student recruitment and admissions practices and programs
to provide physicians needed for the state of NC and
national leaders, in order to meet our goal of being the
nation’s leading public medical school

Tom
Bacon

Initiative
1: Establish specific, measureable, and achievable
goals for training physicians
to serve the needs of NC, the US and beyond

Initiative
2: Establish and support recruitment and admission
practices and programs that support institutional goals

SP3.
Develop and support infrastructure that will ensure our
continued ability to train physicians, both within Chapel
Hill and across the state

Cam
Enarson

Initiative
1: Proceed with full development of clinical campuses

Initiative
2: Develop plans for a new educational building on the
Chapel Hill campus to support planned class expansion
and planned curricular innovations

Initiative
3: Promote and support creation of teaching practices
of excellence

Initiative
4: Leverage North Carolina AHEC to improve clinical
care and research across the entire state

CLINICAL
CARE

Al
Daugird and Brian Goldstein

SP1.
Establish a UNC HCS-wide quality program, building on
existing efforts, to ensure the greatest possible patient
safety and highest quality care for all